[IxDA Discuss] Shared whiteboard: Summary

2008-04-02 Thread Jonas Löwgren
Dear list, I received several useful suggestions in reply to my recent query about shared whiteboards for distributed design sessions. I thought I might summarize my findings briefly -- it might be useful for somebody else on the list. To reiterate, my spec was: I am looking for a setup

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] Reminder: IxDA Toronto Meeting: This Thursday at LinuxCaffe

2008-04-02 Thread Meredith Noble
Hi folks, Just a reminder about the IxDA Toronto meeting happening tomorrow at LinuxCaffe at 7pm! All are welcome, but we'd ask that you RSVP on Upcoming (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/460354) or to myself at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we have some idea of how many to expect. We've got 14 so far, so

Re: [IxDA Discuss] tools and langages to model the interaction of a game.

2008-04-02 Thread Peter
Edson, there isn't much in terms of published work on game specific interaction design. My colleague and I recently picked up the only two books she'd found, which are: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Development-Essentials-Interface-Design/dp/1418016209 (Overview of the field, rather glossy)

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Comments for our new video player

2008-04-02 Thread Eduardo Ortiz
* Are you talking about simply moving the feedback from the slider intoa more prominent position?* Yes, but a lot more can be done in the area, that ad that appears in the beginning (before the ui changing to display the video ui) could be integrated, that way the user sees all of their control

[IxDA Discuss] CHI 08 - who's in florence next week?

2008-04-02 Thread Jeremy Yuille
So - now closer to the date.. who's going to be in Florence next week? We should get a dinner going. I'm in nyc atm, but twitter (overlobe) seems to be working well.. ping me if you're going to be in Florence next week and we'll try do a get together. cheers jy

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Web Site Navigation Best Practices - Use of Tabs, Mouse-overs, Breadcrumbs and Left Hand Column Navigation

2008-04-02 Thread Victor Lombardi
James Kalbach's relatively new book 'Designing Web Navigation' includes this kind of information. It also summarizes the latest navigation research in areas like genre and transitional volatility, state of the art stuff.

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Announces Archive of Interaction 08 Presentation Videos

2008-04-02 Thread James Leftwich, IDSA
The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is pleased to announce that videos from presentations at IxDA's Interaction 08, held February 8 - 10, 2008 at the Savannah College of Art and Design are now available on the conference site: http://interaction08.ixda.org/videos.php This collection

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Comments for our new video player

2008-04-02 Thread Matthew Loff
The other contributors' critiques hit on great points... So rather than reiterate, I thought I'd share this: http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/ywc/ I randomly came across this last night. Of all the flash video players I've seen, this has one of the most responsive UIs (example: dragging the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] tools and langages to model the interaction of a game.

2008-04-02 Thread Tim Makoid
You should definitely check out the research that Bungie and Microsoft did for Halo 3, where they used one of the most advanced testing labs ever created to get as much information on every aspect of the game they could. They monitored users facial expressions during play, they monitored how long

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CHI 08 - who's in florence next week?

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bernard
I'm not at CHI this year but some of my Microsoft peers are, including a guy named Darren McCormick who heads up our global user experience evangelism program for Microsoft and is doing a panel or two on UX in the enterprise. If anyone would like to meet up with him little 'r' me and I'll put

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shared whiteboard: Summary

2008-04-02 Thread Petroff, Greg
Jonas, Does not fit your criteria but there is a really nice system from polyvision called Thunder. http://www.polyvision.com/products/thunder.asp It has the nice function of maintaining information persistence and can be booked through outlook to remember where you were at when you left off

[IxDA Discuss] Carnegie International in Pittsburgh

2008-04-02 Thread Michele Marut
Pittsburgh IXDA is wondering ianyone from this list will be attending the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh http://www.cmoa.org/exhibitions/ci08.asp Michele Marut IXDA Local Ambassador for Pittsburgh Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Don't listen to your customers.

2008-04-02 Thread Oleg Krupnov
Did you run across the situation when after researching the users you find that people stick to a wrong or inefficient way of doing the target function, and you find yourself choosing between insisting on the better practices and thereby perhaps losing a big part of the conservative audience, or

[IxDA Discuss] MS Surface Arrives at ATT this month

2008-04-02 Thread Jack Moffett
Microsoft Surface, the software maker's coffee-table shaped touch- screen computer, will make its debut as a marketing tool in a handful of ATT Inc.'s wireless stores April 17. http://tinyurl.com/2ypadc There will only be 22 of them in service. I'll be expecting a report from one of you

Re: [IxDA Discuss] MS Surface Arrives at ATT this month

2008-04-02 Thread Jack Moffett
Here's more information with a video demonstration on Engadget: http://tinyurl.com/272fy4 Jack L. Moffett Interaction Designer inmedius 412.459.0310 x219 http://www.inmedius.com You could design a process to catch everything, but then you're overprocessing. You kill creativity. You kill